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No. 704,701. Patented luly ca, 1002.

n. JANNUZZ|.

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(Application filed Feb. 16, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RAPHAEL JANNUZZI, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,701, datedd'uly 15, 1902. Application filed February 15, 1902. Serial No. 94,175. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RAPHAEL J ANNUZZI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which improvement the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in folding hat-boxes, and has for its object the provision of novel means whereby a hat-box may be constructed of a base, interlocking sides, and a lid, all formed integral with one another and stamped out of a single piece of material.

The present invention further aims to construct a folding hat-box that when knocked down will occupy very little space, which in height will only be equal to the thicknessof the material of which it is formed; furthermore, to provide a box of this character that will be extremely simple, strong, durable, and comparativelyinexpensive to manufacture. v

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout both views, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the box as it appears when knocked down. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the box when built up in proper position. 7

In the drawings the reference-numeral 1 indicates the base of the box, said base carrying interlocking projections 2, and formed integral with said base, on each side thereof, are arranged sides 3 3, said sides having interlockingprojections 4 formed'on opposite sides thereof. The said sides 3 also have formed therein a series of angular slits 5,

.Which are arranged on opposite ends of the sides A single slit 6 is arranged at each end of the sides 3.

The reference-numeral 7 represents a lid having scalloped edges 8, which .may be-5o turned down, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The manner of folding my improved box is as follows: The sides 3 are bent in semicircular form and the interlocking projections 4 applied in the slits 5. The interlocking projections 2 are securedin the slits6 and in one of the series of slits 5. The lid is then bent over and the scalloped edges are bent downwardly, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Themany advantages obtained by the use of my improved box will be readily apparent from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

,It will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

,Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is v Ina device of the typeset forth, the com bination of. a basecarrying interlocking projections arrauged in pairs upon its periphery diametrically opposite one another, sides formed integral with the base diametrically opposite one another, interlocking projections carried by one end of one of the sides and the opposite end of the other of the sides, with an angular slit 6 formed in the said ends of the sides and a seriesof angular slits 5 formed-in the ends of the sides opposite to the ends carrying said projections, and an integral lid having scalloped edges formed integral with one of the sides at a point opposite to its connection with the base, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

, RAPHAELJANNUZZI.

In presence elf- LOUIS Monsnn, M. HUNTER. 

